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The chatter-world envelopes the speechless day. The graph, the aggregate, the algorithmic overlay : millions, nay, billions of contending stories, sorties. The articulated bark of the logic-trees... the directives, the spin-cycles... this being one of them (minute & indistinct, or vast & bulbous).
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The Logos might be a name for the ur-narrative, the frame of frames. What makes for form and equilibrium on the one hand... & for petrified cocoons, thoughtless verbal armatures, on the other.
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Frame of frames... serious concept. Danger of idolatry, of predatory totalism ("One ring to rule them all" etc.).
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Yet if the frame - empowered to shatter/comprehend all the wind-tunnels of history - if this tale were actually benevolent...
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We might want to listen to it, deep in the monsoon-shelter.
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If there were such a frame, an ur-story, it might be about a very quiet, mysterious, and universal victory over death. It might bring peace of mind, courage, joy... & it might even be true.
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It might be the story we find ourselves telling, in our own way.
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It might have happened, once. There might be evidence. But what it means... (up to us to find out).
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